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January 2012 flickr Friends Reveal : Snowflakes

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It’s hard to believe that the end of the month is already here and with it, we have another round of flickr Friends to reveal!

Each month, we provide a theme for you to use on your projects and then upload to our flickr pool. At the end of each month, we select a few of our favorites to post here on our blog and send them some BasjcGrey goodies as our way of saying thanks. The theme for this month was “snowflakes” and was inspired by our Nordic Holiday collection. You’ll find snowflakes in many of the embellishments within this collection.  And at this time of year, what better time to document the weather outside your window?

First, I thought I’d share with you some great examples from our design team using this month’s theme :

2011 Ice Skating | Pamela Young

SUPPLIES : [LITTLE BLACK DRESS] LBD-3488 Dashing, LBD-3481 Black and White, MET-3500 Metal Flowers [NORDIC HOLIDAY] NOR-3455 6×6 Paper Pad, NOR-3465 Glitter Chipboard  [PICADILLY] PIC-3515 Blue Plate Special [FABRIC] FAB-8000 Atelier.  
Pamela notes, “I played with several collections for this layout.  I hand cut some snowflakes…the old fashioned way (fold and cut) and added them along the bottom as well as behind the center photo.  The chipboard snowmen brought the whole layout together.”
 
SUPPLIES: [BABY] BAB-9068 Monogram Chipboard, [OUT OF PRINT] OUT-3319 Newsflash, OUT-3323-Mish Mash,  [OLIVIA] VIA-2690 Doilies, VIA-2639 Isabella,  VIA-2640 Emma, VIA-2641-Kembrie, VIA- 2646 Brianna, VIA-2648 Ashlyn, VIA-2649 Chloe, VIA- 2651 Marabelle, VIA-2652 Katelyn, VIA-2658 Sticker Element, VIA-2686 Bloomers, [NORDIC HOLIDAY] NOR-3441 Black Diamond, NOR-3444 Carving, NOR-3645 – Glitter Chipboard, [ESKIMO KISSES] ESK-2021 - Eskimo Kisses Chip Sticker Shapes, [WANDER] WAN-2294 Chip Stickers ABC´s, [HELLO LUSCIOUS] MET-3252- Hello Luscious Stitched Brads.
Larissa explains, “What a great challenge for someone who lives in the tropics – to incorporate a snowflake in a layout! Even though I saw the snow just a few times in my life, I have great moments that worth to be keep, so, I decided to create one page layout about one of these and have used one cute photo of my daughter. I also decorated Basic Grey´s chipoard monogram with one big snowflake chipboard taken from the Eskimo Kisses collection that I cut into pieces and added a few cute embellishments that were perfect to portray my photo.”
And without further ado, some of our favorites from our flickr pool using this month’s theme :
My Snowflake Beauty

 My Snowflake Beauty | Polly McMillan Raymond

When you think snowflakes, you don’t often think of a primary color scheme, do you?  The unexpected color choices by Polly definitely grabbed our eye.

Chris Kringle | scrappyhappymom

In this layout, we love that the snowflakes were used more as an accent than as an integral part of the layout.  What a great filmstrip of photos documenting an almost tree mishap!

A BIG thank you to all of you who uploaded your projects and of course, to our two winners!  We’ll be in touch shortly to arrange your prizes.  Look for February’s theme to be posted tomorrow!

 

 

 

Basic Scrapbook Sketch : 1.30.12

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Hume Lake | Kathleen Summers

SUPPLIES : [MELLOW] MEL-D604 Mellow Starter Kit, MEL-D606 Mellow Textures, [HELLO LUSCIOUS] HLO-D888 Hellow Luscious Starter Kit.

For those of you who love creating two page layouts, this sketch is for you!  This week’s sketch is based on this layout by BasicGrey digital design team member Kathleen Summers.

Kathleen explains, “This is such a versatile design for multi-photo two-page layouts. I used designs like this even as a paper scrapper. You can create 8×10 photo grids in photo-editing software which allows you to easily size, crop, and place your photos in a way that looks best. Then have your local developer print them if you don’t print your photos at home. I used this trick a lot!”

As always, we ask that you create a layout based on your own personal style and simply be inspired by the sketches we provide.  Don’t have a lot of photos handy for a two page layout?  Or maybe you’d rather create a single page project?  No worries!  Simply use either single page sketch for your layout!

Sweet Treats | Melanie Bauer

SUPPLIES : [KISSING BOOTH] KIS-3551 Butterfly Kisses, KIS-3565 We Belong, KIS-3570 Element Stickers, KIS-3571 Alphabet Stickers, [BITTERSWEET] MET-1554 Glazed Brads.

Instead of creating a two page layout, I was inspired by the tight photo placement of Kathleen’s project and created a single page layout using our latest collection, Kissing Booth.  I kept the layout linear in design and also placed border elements along the left side as she did.  To create more depth to my layout, I used dimensional adhesive for two of the sticker elements.

We’d love to see what you create from this week’s sketch. Leave a comment below with a link to your project and we’ll select one commenter at random to receive a collection pack of your choice. Comment must be posted by February 5, 2012 at 11:59p MST.

If you upload your layout to your blog or online gallery, be sure to also upload it to ourBasicGrey flickr pool so that other BG fans can find your work easily.

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CONGRATULATIONS to our winner selected at random from the comments we received by the noted deadline :

More CHA Winter 2012 Samples

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As today is the start of the CHA Winter 2012 show, we thought it only fitting to share some projects that are being displayed in our our booth showcasing our latest collections.  All layouts were created by BasicGrey designer Kelly Goree.

Thank you so much for you kind words and amazing response to the peeks we revealed earlier this week – we’re excited to see what YOU create with our new products!

Konnichiwa

Plumeria

PB&J

What’s Up

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

 

 

 

 

 

Eye Spy : Lilith Eeckels

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SUPPLIES : [PICADILLY] PIC-3531 6×6 Paper Pad.

We first spied this card over in the Studio Calico gallery and we were thrilled with it was uploaded to our flickr pool as well.  It’s a monochromatic ray of sunshine masquerading as a greeting card!  We love how Lilith Eeckels combined our Picadilly collection along with some packaging from one of her husband’s shirts.  What a gorgeous reuse of materials!

Lilith– Congratulations on being selected as our Eye Spy feature this week! We’ll be sending you some BasicGrey product your way as our way of saying thanks.

Have a project you think we should see and that you’d like to share with other BG fans? Upload it to our flickr pool and you might just find your work on our blog! Be sure to note what BasicGrey products you used when uploading.